Tag Archives: Scotland
Provision of drugs within NHS Scotland
The Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC) is the body that evaluates all new medicines in Scotland. Its equivalent in England is called NICE. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) is the one that drug companies go to to obtain a licence for … Continue reading
Invite Whales and Dolphins to the Party
The Scottish Parliament is creating a network of protected areas for Scotland’s amazing marine life. That’s good right? Not entirely. There is a risk that whales and dolphins will not be included. Scotland’s whales and dolphins are remarkable, they deserve … Continue reading
East Lothian Health Network Response to Integration of Adult Health and Social Care proposals
Below is the response that East Lothian Health Network has submitted to the Scottish Executive’s consultation on Integrating Adult Health and Social Care services. The Network decided it should only concentrate on two of the areas up for discussion: on … Continue reading
Ask the Executive to puts its money where its mouth is
The Scottish Executive will shortly be putting forward its proposals for the Scottish Parliamentary Budget. Now is the time to put pressure on them to ensure that measures to implement Scotland’s Climate Change Act are fully funded. The Scottish Executive … Continue reading
Will any aspiring candidates be paying attention to the Welfare Reform Bill
With the current session of the Scottish Parliament due to end at midnight on Tuesday 22nd March are any aspiring candidates paying any attention to the Welfare Reform Bill going through the Westminster parliament? This bill purports to be about … Continue reading
Parliamentary candidate asks the boys to step aside
East Lothian Lib Dem Parliamentary candidate Ettie Spencer has a letter in the local paper this week asking the boys to ‘break it up!’ (referring to Alex Salmond and her immediate rival Iain Gray) declaring nonsense has begun. As she … Continue reading
It’s time
The meagre decorations are down (it’s a small flat), the (working) lights put back in the box and the 2ft tree stuffed back in storage. It’s now time to concentrate on the planned election due this year on the 5th … Continue reading
A Unique Bill
A strange thing happened the other day, the UK Government introduced an Act of Parliament, not at Westminster, but at Holyrood. This is the new Scotland Bill 2010-11 which aims to give new powers to the Scottish Parliament. It’s unique … Continue reading
A green investment bank
The UK Government announced in March 2010 it was to invest £2billion in a Green Investment Bank however, since the election in May that has been cut to £1billion. It is hoped the bank will raise funds and equity for … Continue reading
15 years of devolution
For a number of young people they’ve grown up with devolution in the shape of a Scottish Parliament. For some of us, where the first elections to the Parliament took place 15 years ago, it doesn’t seem so long ago … Continue reading →